Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begun discussing with U.S companies the exploitation of its offshore oil. The Vietnamese need for normal diplomatic ties with the U.S. became acute when four tropical storms hit in one week, flooding the Mekong Delta rice fields. The floods destroyed as much as 80 per cent of the rice crop, and Vietnam now needs the American trade embargo lifted to gain access to U.S. agricultural products. While the chronic Third World ailments are forcing Vietnam to push for closer ties with the United States the Carter administration, by not responding to Vietnamese gestures, is sacrificing any ability to realize...
...forced into financing decisions as intricate as those facing corporate treasurers. Borrowing money at interest rates of up to 12% to buy or rent additional land and invest in machinery can improve a farm's productivity and profits?or it can ruin a farmer who expands too fast while crop prices are falling, as many growers did in 1976-77. Indeed, the angry protests last fall and winter came largely from younger, undercapitalized farmers who borrowed and bought too much too soon and were badly squeezed by inflation...
...Sullivan and his cameras saw a cash crop of bop sweating teenagers making all kinds of marketable noises. The money people record the noises and sell them back to their creators...
...acknowledging the student positions on the various issues sweeping the campus, including those concerning University-held investments in South Africa, and their dividends such as the Charles Engelhard Library in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The current students will have graduated soon to be replaced by another crop committed to perhaps the opposite perspective in the current issues of debate. The Administration of President Bok however has responsibility for the long-run survival of the institution and the sensitive feelings of the University's older and more conservative alumni...
...offensive line averages 250, the defense 235. The Minutemen have Macktrucked their way to 675 yards on the ground in their opening two games. Halfback Cliff Pedrow and fullback Hank Sareault are both tough, but the cream of the crop has to be flanker/wingback Dennis Dent...